Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan has claimed staging the 2027 Rugby World Cup will be a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for the country after formally launching its bid to stage the tournament in six years’ time.

banned from being awarded major events under sanctions imposed as punishment for a state-sponsored doping

Nicole Sapstead today announced she is leaving as the chief executive of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) after

Sapstead is joining the ITIA as senior director for anti-doping, leading the sport’s worldwide anti-doping

Taking forward the international anti-doping programme for a high profile, global sport such as tennis

admiration and affection for the UKAD team, who I am sure will continue to set the standard for anti-doping

doctor Richard Freeman had ordered testosterone knowing it was for a rider.In March, the World Anti-Doping

She will take her considerable knowledge of anti-doping and the working of a national anti-doping organisation

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has approved the use of the First Piano Concerto by classical composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky for the Russian national team during games at the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Riga in Latvia.

national anthem.This CAS ruling did half the four-year sanction first implemented by the World Anti-Doping

).WADA punished Russia due to the manipulation of data at the Moscow Laboratory by the Russian Anti-Doping

European Championships Munich 2022 organisers are inviting applications for volunteers, asking the question: “Are you ready for the event of your life?”

different areas of application.These are production, sports and competition, medical services and anti-doping

Lamine Diack, the disgraced former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has called for "prayers for justice to be done" in his ongoing case after returning to his native Senegal following house arrest in Paris since 2015.

last September on multiple charges of corruption during his tenure, some of it related to the Russian doping

convicted of accepting €3.2 million ($3.8 million/£2.75 million) in bribes from athletes suspected of doping

The United States Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has submitted a report on World Anti-Doping

The global anti-doping watchdog has "already shown a willingness" to reform, according to the ONDCP,

considerable progress achieved by the Agency during the past year" recognised.The United States Anti-Doping

stakeholder engagement.WADA must also consider how to offer struggling signatories of the World Anti-Doping

WADA continues to offer its support to the US Government, the ONDCP and the United States Anti-Doping

Agency in their efforts to strengthen the fight against doping in their country," added Bańka."

Aberdeen is set to host the latest major curling event to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic when the city stages the World Mixed Doubles Championship from tomorrow.

Russian Curling Federation - representing their national governing body instead of the country because of doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has welcomed the Swiss Federal Tribunal decision to reject a petition

Schwazer was banned for eight years in 2016 for a second doping offence, having previously served a three-and-a-half

in Bolzano, Judge Walter Pelino, had made a series of accusations against World Athletics, the anti-doping

the organisation, "nor World Athletics, neither the Cologne laboratory, nor anyone else involved in doping

Pan American Games triple jump champion Omar Craddock will miss the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and next year's World Athletics Championships after he was given a 20-month ban for missing three drugs tests in a 12-month period.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed Craddock had committed an anti-doping rule violation for

pandemic.The 30-year-old American won the triple jump at Lima 2019 ©Getty ImagesCraddock missed anti-doping

Lidia Valentin has earned her place at a fourth straight Olympic Games without making a lift in her final qualifying competition, the Open de Colombia in Cali.

year-old Spaniard entered, weighed in, went through the introductions and made herself available for doping

turned up without lifting earlier in the process, meeting the qualifying requirements - especially doping

The remarkable strength in depth of Chinese weightlifting was evident at the women’s National Championships - and for the first time in many months the athletes were watched by a live audience.

He also predicted that Iran, which can send a maximum of two athletes to Tokyo because of past doping

(FITEQ) has announced that players entering its competitions are now required to take part in anti-doping

applies to all athletes, including those already selected in the registered testing pool.FITEQ's anti-doping

with the International Testing Agency (ITA), while it was approved as a signatory of the World Anti-Doping

of International Sports Federations (GAISF) led to the adoption of a new anti-doping framework last

We have developed a robust anti-doping programme together with the ITA, WADA and GAISF in recent years

 FITEQ requires all athletes to participate in anti-doping educational activities•For more details

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has invited its Continental Confederations and National Federations (NFs) to apply for development grants for the first time in its history.

the International Olympic Committee in June 2019 over issues including its finances.Governance, anti-doping

Lidia Valentin of Spain, who has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games, is moving up to a new weight in an attempt to qualify for Tokyo 2020.

Lopez of Mexico with 195kg.Colombia's participation in Tokyo is under question, as it has had three doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has appointed Michael McNamee as the chair of the organisation's

Professor McNamee's breadth of experience and expertise in ethics related to anti-doping policy, sports

Wonkam of South Africa.This group provides independent expert ethical opinion in relation to combatting doping